Murphy’s Hair Restorer Prank Baffles Friends
In Muscatine Pat Murphy fools his old friend Mike O'Brien by disguising himself as a younger man using Dr. Nott's Cuba Hair Restorer. Murphy laughs as O'Brien cannot recognize him, while Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store promotes the product as restoring color to prematurely gray hair.
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Pat” Murphy
Pat
Mike O’brien
Muscatine
Mike
O’brien
Pat Murphy
Jones
Murphy
Dr. Nott
Cuba
Read Runyon's advertisement and local ads
Christmas is coming and local readers are urged to enjoy Runyon's advertisement. The page lists numerous residents visiting Muscatine or traveling to Letts, Arden, Wilton, Omaha or Lincoln, with mentions of candy boosts, bread clue Sleepy Eye, oysters at Barger and Barrows, and various mailings.
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Runyon
South Muscatine Dances and Local Social Notices
Roach and Musser fire company plans a winter dancing club with a holiday kickoff and regular dances featuring an orchestra. Also: Ladies Aid society of Mulford Congregational church meets for work and refreshments. Many local residents return from Thanksgiving visits. Arthur Creeley to Sandusky for a job with the Midwestern Electric Company. Bank of Muscatine financial statement filed with details on assets liabilities and officers.
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Roach & Musser Fire Company
R. and M. Boys
Roach & Musser Company
Ladies’ Aid Society
Mulford Congregational Church
South End
Oscar George
Winterset
Herbert Johnson
Rock Island
Etta Waide
Peoria
Ethel Mackley
Jean Thomson
Riverside
Henry Weilster
Fruitland
Willard Lindsay
Washington
James Billings
Stewart Road
Sampson Street
George Buchner
Danner
James Q. Beatty
J. E. Hoopes
Arthur Creeley
Sandusky
Ohio
Midwestern Electric Company
Agnes O'Connell
Keota
Local Bank Publishes 1908 Financial Statement and Marriage Notice
The First Trust & Savings Bank of Muscatine Iowa reports assets of 1 443 708 16 with cash on hand drafts and checks and deposits. Also announced is the marriage of James A Fletcher son of Mr and Mrs James H Fletcher to Marie M Oxley of Spokane Wash solemnized at the bride’s mother home on Thanksgiving day with a later home return planned.
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Iowa
Muscatine
Auditor of State
Speci- Chase
Nat'l Bank
New York
Continental
Chicago
Nat'l Bank of Commerce
Kansas City
Louisa County
Nat's Bank
Columbus
State of Iowa
Muscatine County
Ss. We. P. W. Francis
L. G. Burnett
P. W. Francis
Nat’ Bank
German Savings Bank
Davenport
Nat
Burtimaton
Sere Mae
Wee
Bete
BUG Ko
Ck Hs
Amer. Trust & Laws. Bank
New England
N. B
Nat’l Bank
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Farmers & Merch
St. Bk
Col. Junction
PRK
Bank
Aee Ee
First Nat'l Bank
Merchants Loan & Trust Co
Ill
American Trust & Savings Bank
Iowa National Bank
James A. Fletcher
James H. Fletcher
Demorest Avenue
Marie M. Oxley
Spokane
Wash
E. R. Oxley
South Muscatine
Roach & Musser Sash and Door Company
William Musser
National Bank of Commerce
Drovers
Electric Bitters Promises Relief for Digestive Ailments
Life long bondage to dyspepsia liver complaints and kidney troubles is needless Electric Bitters is the guaranteed remedy 50c Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
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Havercamp
The Leach Gin Oil Cough Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts a cough remedy claiming a half-ounce Virgin Oil of Pine two ounces glycerine and a half pint whisky mixed will cure any curable cough and break a cold in 24 hours. Take a teaspoonful every four hours and ask for Leach Gin Oil of Pine compound prepared by Leach Chemical Co Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leach
Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Two maids argue over a Raphael cherubs print
Mrs Ardsley Van Twiller hurries in as Katie and Rosie squabble about a drawing. Rosie, new to the country, insists the figures are bats. Katie corrects her that the print shows twins.
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Katie
Rosie
Harpers Weekly
World’s largest tomb Cheops pyramid looms in Egypt
The piece notes the Cheops pyramid as the world’s largest tomb, covering thirteen acres and rising 461 feet. It also adds a flippant jab about morality, fashion, and a quip from the Pittsburg Post on high society drama and gowns.
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Egypt
Pittsburg Post
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O’ Brien
O'Brien
Schaefer
Iowa Avenue
Daisy Lieberknecht
Letts
G. Gore
South English
Agnes Williams
Cotter
William Bloom
Hershey Avenue
Arden
A. B. Adams
J. B. Mark
W. M. Cope
Wilton
W. L. Cope
A. B. Clapp
East Second St
John Poft
East Ninth Street
Walkerton, Wis
J. Curtis
James Schenck
Downey, Ta
Crozer
West Eighth Street
Mrs
Fred Jarvis
West Liberty
Ella DuBois
Fargo, N. Dak
Ada and
Blanche Kline
Barger & Barrows
Asa Shaw
Grace Armstrong
Oskaloosa
E. W. McGowan
East Sixth Street
E. J. Hennecutt
Oklahoma City
Montezuma
Hugh Wigim
Henry Detthof
J. O. Brigham
Providence, R. I
Irving B. Richman
Norton
Maude Marshall
Fred Schmidt
West Third Street
Mary Masters
Fairbury, Ill
Lincoln
Neb
Busch Street
James B. Hawkins
A. H. Letterhoff
O. Mosher
Kiremien
Roach
Musser
Hershey State Bank
Emer Mar
Ceeses
Ceeee
Evens
Eena
William R. Jayne
Henry Jayne
L. C. Day
Cook, Musser & Co. State Bank
Pen
DU Gee
State of
Ss. We
P. M. Musser
Ed. C. Cook
H. C. Madden
W. E. Bliven
C. R. Musser
G. A. Funck
Ayer
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
W. G. Block CO
Iowa Ave
James Fletcher
First Trust & Savings Bank
Temes Naess
J. Carskaddan
G. Stein
R. K. Smith
S. G. Stein
B. C. Benham
S. M. Hughes
J. R. Reuling
Ba Eee As
Ian
H. F. Giessler
J. L. Giesler
Ss. L. Johnson
Giessler
S. L. Johnson
FL. Seetmter
iTicine
C. A. Mull
J. A. Bartemeier
F. H. Little
Gough
Cairo
Uganda
Equatorial
Africa
Dr. Milne
Upper Nile District
Harper's Weekly
Nile
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